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[naguanatak]

The "gameplay" begins closer to the middle of the game with base raiding and is an extremely poor alpha version of MGS5. All the freshness of DS — "an indie game with an AAA budget for graphics".

So gameplay for you is "action oriented stuff". everthing else is just... what?
Yeah, DS feels like an indie game in an AAA coat, I'll give you that. But it has more gameplay than most triple A stuff nowadays and feels fresher than most

 

[CosmicHusky]

>200+ million budget
>1.5 million copies sold
Your reaction: "Poor guy!".

 

[naguanatak]

If DS is a walking sim without gameplay so is Mario.

I said it before, you can do it with every game. COD/Battlefield, it's just shooting people. FIFA, is just kicking a ball. Snowrunner, just riding trucks. Take every game and break it down to its fundamental principle. Of course DS is just walkinng, for people barely able to follow more than a TikTok video these days. I put 60 and 90 hours into part 1 in two playthroughs and about 110 into part 2. And yes, it's 75% "just walking", but even that with all its intricacies feels better than most AAA nowadays

 

[Portugeezer]

Geoff got some explaining to do to Master Hideo

 

[GymWolf]

Dude should thank the lord that dorito moron is a fanboy and gave him the nomination to begin with.

 

[Oixte]

The game was good but no goty.

At least he won Mr GQ Japan 2025.

 

[balls of snow]

Best direction should have went to DS2. The one award that Clair Obscur should not have won.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Ah yes a walking simulator in which I spent 80% of the game driving.

It's so easy to spot the people who only watched a few YT clips.

 

[Superposition]

It was very strange that we didn't see a DS2 PC announcement on the show.

 

[Critical Hit]

So gameplay for you is "action oriented stuff". everthing else is just... what?
Yeah, DS feels like an indie game in an AAA coat, I'll give you that. But it has more gameplay than most triple A stuff nowadays and feels fresher than most

Everything else in DS1 is walking and elementary construction.

Of course DS is just walkinng, for people barely able to follow more than a TikTok video these days.

It's the other way around. Primitive construction and routes in terms of mental effort are not much different from watching TikTok videos, but you get a lot of likes
This is a game for scrolling through feed.. I mean meditating.

Ah yes a walking simulator in which I spent 80% of the game driving.

It's so easy to spot the people who only watched a few YT clips.

Driving there is as primitive as walking. I quit the game just a few days ago, right after leaving my car at the distribution center and finding that all my belongings had disappeared from it. In the driving game (in your opinion), for some reason, you can't put a corpse in the TRUCK or drive with other npcs. I'm sure it was just a bug in the driving game.

 

[Embearded]

It's the other way around. Primitive construction and routes in terms of mental effort are not much different from watching TikTok videos, but you get a lot of likes
This is a game for scrolling through feed.. I mean meditating.

For most games out there i can turn my brain off and 100% them.

 

[Liopleurodon]

Yes, but who knows what Physint will even be like.

I am looking forward to it, although I think most people would simply want another actual Metal Gear title by him.

Don't get me wrong, though, I can live without Kojima, and I do believe other directors will do a good job on future MG games.

 

[Critical Hit]

For most games out there i can turn my brain off and 100% them.

And sometimes it's great to switch off and relax. But the conversation was about fresh ideas, and in this case, also about implementation. If Kojima had made the driving physics like Snowrunner, the game might have become one of my favorites, but alas.,the whole game rests on the author's name and atmosphere.

 

[SomeGit]

Dude has been in need of a reality check for a long time.

That was me last night when I realized they weren't going to announce HL3

 

[willothedog]

One of the main factor that judges look into. Commercial success. Ds2 is not commercial success. Maybe just 2 mil? Or 3 mil is being too generous.

Astrobot didn't sell huge numbers yet it won awards.

 

[Kerotan]

Look at it as 33 being that good because Yotei and DS2 were top class. As was split fiction.

 

[calico]

That is the reaction of a man who knows real evaluations come after - 10 or 20 years from now.

 

[Tallahassee]

Relying on Hollywood actors to sell a product didnt work this time. Neither in critical acclaim and I'm sure in sales.

 

[Bernardougf]

Fart smelling will only get you so far... and to be honest his batshit crazy walking simulator got too many nominations

 

[adamsapple]

Dude has been in need of a reality check for a long time.

Oh wow .. didn't even notice that when I was watching.

What a sore fucking guy, lol.

It was very strange that we didn't see a DS2 PC announcement on the show.

Sony probably didn't want to fork out the extra million dollars for a trailer spot.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

I'm pretty sure Kojima couldn't give 2 fucks about awards.

Awards and adoration make up 99% of that man's body...the other 1% is "The Big Boss"

 

[Camreezie]

I'm sure he cried into his blumpkin from Keighley

 

[Liopleurodon]

Oh wow .. didn't even notice that when I was watching.

What a sore fucking guy,

That was someone else, not Kojima.

Still, he will remember this year.

 

[Sonik]

Dude has been in need of a reality check for a long time.

Twitter/reddit ragebait is the most pathetic drama in existence, it wasn't him who left and the face he did could be interpreted a million different ways

Kojima has been rooting for this dev the entire year but someone left to take a piss and social media morons created an entire narrative

 

[near]

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

DS2 is the best game this year, and it is the people who are wrong. You have a long look at all these pundits and gaming illuminati all year long, and you would want to have the same taste as them in the end? They might like some good games, but to be over the moon with a product to give it every nomination and award…it was made for a personality type.

 

[adamsapple]

DS2 is the best game this year, and it is the people who are wrong. You have a long look at all these pundits and gaming illuminati all year long, and you would want to have the same taste as them in the end? They might like some good games, but to be over the moon with a product to give it every nomination and award…it was made for a personality type.

"The people" unanimously think Exp 33 should have won.

 

[near]

DS2 is the best game this year, and it is the people who are wrong.

DS2 lacks the novelty and sense of discovery that made DS1 feel fresh. It doesn't really bring much new to the table, and throwing a bunch of A-list actors into the mix doesn't change that. As a sequel to a game that actually took risks and tried something different, it's a pretty big disappointment. Kojima already earned Best Game Direction for DS1, giving him another one here would feel like rewarding the same game twice.

 

[AJUMP23]

Kojima's laughed was one of these silly people. What fools these peasants are. He gave you an A list actress feet.

 

[calico]

So Kojima stormed out and Geoff edited him back in afterwards. Shocking stuff.

 

[Neff]

He was never gonna win with Death Stranding 2's reheated DS1 leftovers. There is nothing outstanding about the game apart from its production values and technical performance. It's everything The Game Awards doesn't celebrate.

Ironically the first game absolutely was but didn't win.

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

Oh well, maybe start making fun games again instead of artsy fartsy bullshit nonsense made for lobotomy patients

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

The game is a flop in practically every single way. Do something else as soon as possible because the world simply was not asking for DS2.

 

[Toots]

The guy was barely even shown.

Maybe he should just return to making Metal Gear games, stuff that people actually want from him.



Could it be that people simply outgrew / had enough of Kojima being Kojima?

His chuckle shows how much he feels disrespected.
If i remember anything from the Sopranos, geoff was extremely out of line and Koj must have called a hit on him as soon as he got back to New York.

 

[Solrac]

rage quit by hideo kojima

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

The OP is one of those vapid American "it's not enough that I win, others have to lose" edgelords, isn't he?

 

[StueyDuck]

This thread proves gaf doesn't play the games they comment on

 

[Zacfoldor]

This thread proves gaf doesn't play the games they comment on

Some of us do!

 

[StueyDuck]

Some of us do!

Yes we do, and those who have can tell who haven't played the game.

Because some of the clown comments being thrown around in this thread are so painfully wrong and ignorant about the game thats its clear theyve not done more than watch a 2 minute video.

 

[Signalis]

 

[Sonik]

Some of us do!

Heresy!

 

[Saber]

Nah, he will survive.

 

[Nankatsu]

Tactical Espionage + cinematographic experience is the way to go Kojima-san.

Also, I don't know about you guys, but for me the whole attires from the E33 actors, team and such felt a bit too much

 

[rkofan87]

That hidden Abandoned teaser is why he was there, read between the lines.

the abandoned stuff a couple years ago was so much fun

 

[p_xavier]

>200+ million budget
>1.5 million copies sold
Your reaction: "Poor guy!".

That's literally a poor guy. Didn't make money?

 

[yogaflame]

Astrobot didn't sell huge numbers yet it won awards.

It sold much better than Ds2 to be honest. Astrobot sales numbers is very good.

Anyway debate about Ex33 will take a while and history will be judge for itself. Im 100% sure many will have a regret vote in the future especially not giving Ds2 a chance and not giving at least 1 or 2 awards. It is like RDR2 or Days gone or GOT case again. For me Ds2 is handsdown best action adventure game compared to Silk song and best Director compared to Ex33.

Ex33 is good and very based, i give them that but only won for sympathy vote, but not goat level rpg, not even top 20.

Thanks.

 

[8BiTw0LF]

That hidden Abandoned teaser is why he was there, read between the lines.

We know!

 

[Paasei]

Who knows, maybe he'll be a little less full of himself from now on.

 

[SlimySnake]

I am the biggest kojima fan i know, but i have zero sympathy for a guy who made the safest DLC feeling sequel hes ever released. Despite taking 6 years. On a brand new hardware. A hardware he didnt take advantage of because he felt the upgrade from PS4 wasnt substantial enough.

I am sorry but go suck a dick. These nobodies from France, ex-Ubisoft devs went out and made a beautiful looking unique game that revolutionzed the jrpg turn based genre, and out kojima'd kojima with the story. Now granted the story in DS2 is its strongest suit, but you cant have a game that plays exactly the same as the game he made in 2019 which failed to win GOTY.

Maybe try harder next time. Take advantage of the hardware instead of dismissing it while charging $70 for a game that barely looks better than its PS4 predecessor. Introduce new gameplay systems that change the gameplay instead of making copy pasta content. Kojima was the one developer who would go out of his way to change settings, add new AI and gameplay mechanics and ditch entire systems in favor of new systems going from MGS1 to 2 to 3 all the way to 5. For him to phone in DS2 like this was not something i was expecting. it shouldnt even have been nominated, but it was a weak year and they had no choice but to nominate mid games like Ghosts 2, Hades 2 and DS2.

 

[GateofD]

maybe he can try making a movie instead of a moviegame